Food Price News & Market Intelligence
Real-time food price analysis, agricultural market updates, and inflation tracking across Nigeria and Africa.
Reps Order Food Safety Crackdown as Nigeria Records 53,000 Deaths and $3.6 Billion in Annual Losses From Unsafe Food
The House of Representatives on 21 July directed NAFDAC, SON, the NCDC and the health ministry to tighten surveillance across the food value chain, after …
Enugu Distributes Free Inputs to 63,000 Farmers as Bauchi, Borno and Sokoto Subsidise Fertiliser Into the 2026 Wet Season
Governor Peter Mbah flagged off distribution of 63,000 bags of fertiliser, seeds and cassava stems to registered smallholders in Enugu on 21 July, a 58 …
36.2 Million Nigerians Face Acute Food Insecurity This Lean Season as Northeast Response Plan Runs 71 Percent Underfunded
The latest Cadre Harmonisé analysis, released by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture with FAO and WFP, puts 6.4 million people in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe …
AGROW Clears Design Phase: Nigeria Moves $500 Million World Bank Farm Programme to Implementation With $355 Million Routed Through 32 States
Nigeria has closed the design phase of the $500 million World Bank-backed AGROW programme, with Vice President Kashim Shettima receiving the final technical report in …
Food Security Bill Clears Second Reading in the House as Lawmakers Argue Enforcement, Not Legislation, Is Nigeria's Weak Link
A bill aimed at strengthening Nigeria's food security architecture passed second reading in the House of Representatives on Thursday, 9 July, but the debate that …
Cadre Harmonisé Puts 6.4 Million People in Nigeria's North East at Crisis Level or Worse, With 96 Per Cent of the Agricultural Response Still Unfunded
The latest Cadre Harmonisé analysis, launched in Abuja on 6 July, places 6.4 million people in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in need of immediate food …
BUA Foods Bets on Volume: Port Harcourt Oil Mill, Noodles Plant and Feed Mill Due Next Year as Rabiu Tells Tinubu Scale Will Pull Staple Prices Down
Nigeria's packaged food market is about to get a new heavyweight in noodles and edible oils. BUA Foods chairman Abdul Samad Rabiu, speaking after a …
Cheaper Flour, Same Costly Loaf
Flour prices have eased, but bread has not followed. Bakers say energy bills, multiple taxation and packaging costs have swallowed the savings, and industry leaders …
Kano Goes After Fake Farm Chemicals
Kano has threatened to prosecute dealers selling counterfeit pesticides and herbicides after farmers in Kura and Garun Malam reported ruined crops. Regulators say fake inputs …
Farmers May Soon Borrow Against Their Harvest
NIRSAL has signed a partnership with the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange to build up warehouse receipt financing, letting farmers store crops in certified warehouses and borrow …
A Cement Giant Starts Making Garri
Dangote Cement has commissioned a cassava processing plant in Ogun State that will turn local roots into garri and fufu. The facility was handed to …
Jigawa Arms 90,000 Farmers for the Season
Jigawa has flagged off its 2026 wet season support programme, promising subsidised fertiliser to 90,000 farmers. The package adds 6,000 solar-powered irrigation pumps and 1,185 …